30th Anniversary

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CPJ
founders and board members along with supporters and friends filed into
Columbia University's Italian Academy on Thursday for a series of events to
mark the 30 years of CPJ's existence. The celebration started with a 20-minute
sneak peek at a feature-length documentary about CPJ that will be released
later this year.

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Journalists
rarely report on themselves. But in 1981, when two of them heard about a Paraguayan
reporter who had been arrested and was facing a potential prison term simply
for reporting the news, they were convinced that it was time to act. It was this
desire to help a colleague under threat that was the seed that spawned the
Committee to Protect Journalists. Since then, CPJ has grown to a fully staffed
organization advocating globally for press freedom.